The Moment Of Self Portraiture In German Renaissance Art

Author : Joseph Leo Koerner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226449998

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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner Pdf

So foundational is this invention to modern aesthetics, Koerner argues, that interpreting it takes us to the limits of traditional art-historical method. Self-portraiture becomes legible less through a history leading up to it, or through a sum of contexts that occasion it, than through its historical sight-line to the present. After a thorough examination of Durer's startlingly new self-portraits, the author turns to the work of Baldung, Durer's most gifted pupil, and demonstrates how the apprentice willfully disfigured Durer's vision. Baldung replaced the master's self-portraits with some of the most obscene and bizarre pictures in the history of art. In images of nude witches, animated cadavers, and copulating horses, Baldung portrays the debased self of the viewer as the true subject of art. The Moment of Self-Portraiture thus unfolds as passages from teacher to student, artist to viewer, reception, all within a culture that at once deified and abhorred originality.

Author : Joseph Leo Koerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art, German
ISBN : OCLC:27888020

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Self Portraiture and the Crisis of Interpretation in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner Pdf

Author : James Hall
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500772072

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The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History by James Hall Pdf

Sheds new light on the long history of self-portraiture with fresh interpretations of famous examples and new works, ideas, and anecdotes This broad cultural history of self-portraiture brilliantly maps the history of the genre, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of “bearing witness” to the prolific self-image-making of today’s contemporary artists. Focusing on a perennially popular subject, the book tells the vivid history of works that offer insights into artists’ personal, psychological, and creative worlds. Topics include the importance of the medieval mirror craze in early self-portraiture; the confessional self-portraits of Titian and Michelangelo; the mystique of the artist’s studio, from Vermeer to Velázquez; the role of biography and geography for serial self-portraitists such as Courbet and Van Gogh; the multiple selves of modern and contemporary artists such as Cahun and Sherman; and recent developments in the era of globalization. Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated, the book features the work of a wide range of artists including Beckmann, Caravaggio, Dürer, Gentileschi, Ghiberti, Giotto, Goya, Kahlo, Kauffman, Magritte, Mantegna, Picasso, Poussin, Raphael, Rembrandt and Van Eyck. The full range of the subject is explored, including comic and caricature self-portraits, “invented” or imaginary self-portraits, and important collections of self-portraiture such as that of the Medici.

Author : Mitchell B. Merback
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226520153

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The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel by Mitchell B. Merback Pdf

Christ's Crucifixion is one of the most recognized images in Western visual culture, and it has come to stand as a universal symbol of both suffering and salvation. But often overlooked in this symbolic language is the fact that ultimately the Crucifixion is a scene of capital punishment. In The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel, Mitchell Merback reconstructs the religious, legal, and historical context of the Crucifixion and of other images of public torture. The result is an account of a time when criminal justice and religion were entirely interrelated and punishment was a visual spectacle devoured by a popular audience.

Author : Pamela H. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226763994

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The Body of the Artisan by Pamela H. Smith Pdf

Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans. From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters, artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe including artisans' objects and their writings, Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in matter and nature. With nearly two hundred images, The Body of the Artisan provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art, craft, and science, and recovers a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution-an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world.

Author : Daniel A. Siedell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625644428

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Who's Afraid of Modern Art? by Daniel A. Siedell Pdf

Modern art can be confusing and intimidating--even ugly and blasphemous. And yet curator and art critic Daniel A. Siedell finds something else, something much deeper that resonates with the human experience. With over thirty essays on such diverse artists as Andy Warhol, Thomas Kinkade, Diego Velazquez, Robyn O'Neil, Claudia Alvarez, and Andrei Rublev, Siedell offers a highly personal approach to modern art that is informed by nearly twenty years of experience as a museum curator, art historian, and educator. Siedell combines his experience in the contemporary art world with a theological perspective that serves to deepen the experience of art, allowing the work of art to work as art and not covert philosophy or theology, or visual illustrations of ideas, meanings, and worldviews. Who's Afraid of Modern Art? celebrates the surprising beauty of art that emerges from and embraces pain and suffering, if only we take the time to listen. Indeed, as Siedell reveals, a painting is much more than meets the eye. So, who's afraid of modern art? Siedell's answer might surprise you.

Author : Joanna Woods-Marsden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300075960

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Renaissance Self-portraiture by Joanna Woods-Marsden Pdf

An exploration of the genesis and early development of the genre of self-portraiture in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries. The author examines a series of self-portraits in Renaissance Italy, arguing that they represented the aspirations of their creators to change their social standing.

Author : James Hall
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500779262

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James Hall on the Self-Portrait by James Hall Pdf

Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.

Author : James Elkins,Robert Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135902469

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Renaissance Theory by James Elkins,Robert Williams Pdf

Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance scholarship, but issues of concern to art historians and critics in all fields. Organized as a virtual roundtable discussion, the contributors discuss rifts and disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debate the principal texts and authors of the last thirty years who have sought to reconceptualize the period. They then turn to the issue of the relation between modern art and the Renaissance: Why do modern art historians and critics so seldom refer to the Renaissance? Is the Renaissance our indispensable heritage, or are we cut off from it by the revolution of modernism? The volume includes an introduction by Rebecca Zorach and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on Renaissance art including Stephen Campbell, Michael Cole, Frederika Jakobs, Claire Farago, and Matt Kavaler.

Author : Shearer West
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191518034

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Portraiture by Shearer West Pdf

This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been interpreted? Issues of identity, modernity, and gender are considered within a cultural and historical context. Shearer West uncovers much intriguing detail about a genre that has often been seen as purely representational, featuring examples from African tribes to Renaissance princes, and from 'stars' such as David and Victoria Beckham to ordinary people. In the process, she shows us how to communicate with the past in an exciting new way.

Author : Babette Bohn,James M. Saslow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118391518

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A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art by Babette Bohn,James M. Saslow Pdf

A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history. Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to 1700 Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-Historical Factors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Stature of the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message: Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse Covers many topics not typically included in collections of this nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatises, the global Renaissance in arts, the new natural sciences and the arts, art and religion, and gender and sexuality Features essays on the arts of the domestic life, sexuality and gender, and the art and production of tapestries, conservation/technology, and the metaphor of theater Focuses on Western and Central Europe and that territory's interactions with neighboring civilizations and distant discoveries Includes illustrations as well as links to images not included in the book

Author : Susie Nash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192842695

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Northern Renaissance Art by Susie Nash Pdf

The history of northern Renaissance art, from the late 14th to the early 16th century, drawing on a rich range of sources to show how northern European art dominated the visual culture of Europe in this formative period

Author : Alessandro Arcangeli,Jörg Rogge,Hannu Salmi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000097917

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The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World by Alessandro Arcangeli,Jörg Rogge,Hannu Salmi Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings in the exciting field of cultural history. A synthesis of how the new cultural history has transformed the study of history, the volume is divided into three parts – medieval, early modern and modern – that emphasize the way people made sense of the world around them. Contributions cover such themes as material cultures of living, mobility and transport, cultural exchange and transfer, power and conflict, emotion and communication, and the history of the senses. The focus is on the Western world, but the notion of the West is a flexible one. In bringing together 36 authors from 15 countries, the book takes a wide geographical coverage, devoting continuous attention to global connections and the emerging trend of globalization. It builds a panorama of the transformation of Western identities, and the critical ramifications of that evolution from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, that offers the reader a wide-ranging illustration of the potentials of cultural history as a way of studying the past in a variety of times, spaces and aspects of human experience. Engaging with historiographical debate and covering a vast range of themes, periods and places, The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is the ideal resource for cultural history students and scholars to understand and advance this dynamic field.

Author : Jane Campbell Hutchison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135581725

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Albrecht Durer by Jane Campbell Hutchison Pdf

Hutchison's book is a complete guide on Durer and the research on his work, his historical import and his aesthetic legacy.

Author : Gabriella Giannachi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429887826

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Technologies of the Self-Portrait by Gabriella Giannachi Pdf

This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark different phases in what can be described as a history of self- or selves-production. Gabriella Giannachi shows how artists constructed their presence, subjectivity, and personhood, by using a range of technologies and media including mirrors, photography, sculpture, video, virtual reality and social media, to produce an increasingly fluid, multiple, and social representation of their ‘self’. This interdisciplinary book draws from art history, performance studies, visual culture, new media theory, philosophy, computer science, and neuroscience to offer a radical new reading of the genre.